Re: Accessibility: Orca screen reader doesn't work as expected

[Luis Felipe]

Hi,

On Thursday, January 20th, 2022 at 5:15 PM, Luis Felipe 
<luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 

> Trying to do a quick check of the accessibility of Guix's website, I found 
> that Orca doesn't work well (using Guix System 037c2b6 with GNOME 40.4).
> 

> One important thing that doesn't work is reading web content on any browser 
> (epiphany, icecat, chromium), so could you check if you can reproduce? If you 
> can, I'll report the issue to the tracker then.
> 

> STEPS
> 

> These steps assume you are logged into a GNOME desktop session.
> 

> 1.  Press Super+Alt+S (after a couple of seconds, you should hear a robotic 
> voice say "Screen reader activated", or something like that in your session 
> language)
> 2.  Start Icecat (or any other browser)
> 3.  Go to https://guix.gnu.org/ (wait for the page to load completely)
> 4.  Press the tab key to navigate through the links of the page
>     

>     EXPECTED RESULT
>     

>     This is what I expect from my experience with Orca on Debian 11.
>     

>     In step 2, you should hear the voice indicating that a window was 
> launched.
>     

>     In step 3:
> 

> -   when typing the address, you should hear the voice read out loud every 
> key you type.
> -   when you hit Enter and the page loads, you should hear the voice reading 
> the title of the page, and give you some information about its structure and 
> navigation.
>     

>     In step 4, you should hear the voice read the text of the focused link.

I upgraded the system and user profile today to guix 579e9e9. Now, with GNOME 
41, Orca works as expected. Even the modifier key, so one can start the 
configuration with Insert+Space without problems.

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